"Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind"

Scott Larson is an independent scholar who has taught geography and urban studies at Vassar College, Queens College, and Hunter College.

"Larson brilliantly dissects Bloomberg's tenure as Mayor of New York (particularly the first two terms), focusing on how the administration used the prevailing legacies of Moses and Jacobs to get what they wanted done... [T]his book raises a flag as to what that legacy should be, as well as to what his successor should really focus on."--A Weekly Dose of Architecture, August 12th 2013 "The book is an excellent brief about the state of affairs of planning in New York City in the past decade... there are many interesting insights in this readable monograph. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice

• Acknowledgments1   Jacobs versus Moses: A Fight for the City’s Soul2   The “Patron Saint” and the “Git’r Done Man”3   The Bloomberg Practice4   Calls for a New Moses5   Planning and the Narrative of Threat6   The Armature for Development7   Ideas That Converge8   Ideas That Travel9   Design as Civic Virtue10  Building Like Moses with Jacobs in MindNotes References Index